Slippery Roads Persist In Some Parts Of State

February 21, 2014

Ice continued to be a problem on some roads Friday morning.

In East Windsor, cars slid off streets, prompting police to close roads in the area of Old Ellington Road, Mill Street and Church Street, a dispatcher said about 7:30 a.m. No injuries were reported, she said.

Roads were closed in Putnam, too. And in Union, Route 171 was reopened at 8:15 a.m. after being closed because of a tractor trailer crash. Ice was likely a factor, said a dispatcher from the Troop C barracks in Tolland.

"We were all slipping and sliding in the parking lot this morning," she said.

Some school systems delayed the start of classes, especially those in the western part of the state.

The ice problem is mostly in areas that are at higher elevations, said FOX CT Meteorologist Joe Furey.